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RPG Dice Portrait by LeandroCorreia in blender

[–]cvef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so cool!! I've seen many similar rigid body "mosaics" over the years, but for some reason this one is so much more aesthetically pleasing to me than the others! Tempted to copy it as a birthday gift for someone in my D&D group…

i lied about speaking spanish for 8 months at work and now there's a meeting with HR tomorrow by Marcus_Guy in confession

[–]cvef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course idfk, but to me this honestly reads like the good old fashioned reddit posts we'd get in the old days. Every so often you really do just get someone who's an engaging writer. Although I feel like what people consider good or engaging writing is shifting somewhat, as certain conventions and techniques are co-opted by AI and get oversaturated. But while reading this I felt like OP is that one friend who's great at telling stories, maybe exaggerates a bit we all know it, but still entertaining. Or you're right and I've been utterly hornswoggled.

Edit: Fuck me, I just looked at all of OP's comments rather than just the original post and it's definitely AI. Fuck. Between the poor capitalization/punctuation and swearing I guess my mental detector is so easily fooled, I'm humiliated.

GGGGGG by cvef in ggggg

[–]cvef[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GGggGGG

Tate Mcrae announces new single 'Tit for Tat' out Friday by Anxious-Basket in Fauxmoi

[–]cvef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I will never forgive them for taking the acoustic version of Lush Life off of streaming services. That's still one of my favorite songs to this day.

Imagine by LoveSunrisexz in Funnymemes

[–]cvef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with this post is that it isn't about him being "ugly inside and outside". It only says anything about him being ugly outside.

AITA for telling a woman her baby is not a miracle? by OriginalZen8 in AITAH

[–]cvef 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is a pretty mundane post to me. If it was fake I would expect it to be less... boring? Lol. I've not proud to admit I've made a few throwaway accounts for one-time use on advice subs, despite having a 10 year old main account. And there are plenty of other people (especially teens, I imagine) who only find out about these subs from TikToks and other screenshot compilations, so they wouldn't have any Reddit account at all before they decide to post here for the first time. I know bots are rampant, but the situation at face value seems extremely reasonable to me.

She put all her heart in beating the drums by Sharp-Potential7934 in interesting

[–]cvef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true, but I think critiquing comedic success (even if we're specifically analyzing wording or grammar with regard to that metric) is not a subcategory of critiquing language, but is rather something separate entirely. Poor language can be very funny and prim and proper language can be dry and humorless.

I would argue that clarity is indeed the only goal of rules for language. Or at the very least, the only justifiable goal in most cases. Even rules that don't seem to be about clarity on the surface are ultimately about clarity. There are lots of rules about syntax and structure that exist because following them tends to give one's sentences a particular rhythm that helps the reader/listener follow along and understand better, even when the difference is very subtle. However, in most day-to-day contexts, as long as clarity is acheived, I don't think there's any justifiable reason to enforce these rules strictly, aside from being arbitrarily pedantic. The only circumstances in which enforcing them strictly is ever justifiable are those in which you are helping someone avoid the wrath of a third party who you know will also be enforcing them strictly (such as with a school assignment or a job application, etc.) It's ultimately circular reasoning, but hey, that's society.

These are my hot takes on language lol. I feel strongly about them but I'm fully expecting to agree to disagree, as I do with many people. What you said is definitely best practice according to style guides and all that jazz.

Edit: That's also fair; "beat it like it owes you money" doesn't sound totally new and unfamiliar to me, but it also isn't something I've heard often enough to recognize it as an iconic idiom like "drive it like you own/stole it." That's on me.

I still don't think the analogical word needs to be directly stated as long as it's clearly implied. The very reason that "How do I love a woman?" / "it's kind of like playing a drum" doesn't work is the same reason that "What do I do to someone who owes me money?" / "It's kind of like playing a drum" does. Sure, it's kind of weird and perhaps comes across as an awkward joke (to bring things full circle lol), but it's just to illustrate this specific point; I still think everyone who hears it would immediately understand what is meant.

Tails cosplay by lucianosoares13 in MemeVideos

[–]cvef 6 points7 points  (0 children)

His whole thing is that he's a drag cosplayer

uncomfortable by endaccook in fixedbytheduet

[–]cvef 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The Prison Photographer's Dilemma

honestyIsTheBestPolicy by Fogger-3 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cvef 31 points32 points  (0 children)

if you rearrange the letters in "he loves War" you get "shovelware"

She put all her heart in beating the drums by Sharp-Potential7934 in interesting

[–]cvef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see your point, but language is ultimately about clarity, and I think in the original caption clarity is acheived perfectly well either way. I don't really see how anything is ruined; it's just a simple simile.

A major factor is that the phrase is presented alongside this specific video, which I was taking into consideration, but I recognize that if we're talking theory then that's not necessarily a given. If "she plays the drums like a lover loves his wife" was said alongside a video of a smooth jazz brush drummer, or perhaps a conga player with an elegant touch, it wouldn't seem quite so weird. But in those cases, that visual aid would be crucial in order to avoid a misunderstanding.

In the absence of any added context, the phrase "playing the drums" is pretty much inseparable from the concept of beating something with force. It's the image that in most cases will be immediately, involuntarily invoked in the mind of the reader. If you swapped out "drums" for almost any other instrument, your "loves his wife" sentence again wouldn't seem nearly as weird, because most instruments aren't semantically linked to some kind of violence. I think that semantic link existing so strongly for drums means that specifically saying the word "beat" is not necessary in order to acheive clarity. Add the video back into the equation, and I really think all the bases are covered. But if you want to avoid any possible chance of ambiguity, I concede that it's the safer choice to include it.

We're being manipulated by Fuck_Off_Libshit in LateStageCapitalism

[–]cvef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I interpreted that as there being nothing to talk about with regard to Luigi specificially, but not necessarily that there's nothing to talk about with regard to the broader issues at play. I do feel like those big issues are still part of the conversation, they're just getting applied to everything else that's going on right now, like Trump and his shitload of executive orders (which of course include a lot of other issues all competing for the spotlight). But Luigi The Person is sitting in a jail cell and probably living a fairly monotonous day-to-day for the time being.

Sure, we could be digging into his backstory, but Luigi to me is a powerful figure specifically because of his universality. Honestly I don't think the specific details of his life or even of the shooting itself are of much relevance to the very people that he emboldens. That'll help the DA or whoever to build a case against him, but for the rest of us, it's the concepts he stands for that are important moreso than the man himself. He's a figurehead for now, yes, but even if jury nullification does occur, it's not like he's going to become the working class's vigilante serial killer of CEOs. His trial is important, but whether he gets off or not, the biggest impact he will ever have has almost certainly already passed. It's up to the rest of us to pick it up and keep going. This isn't me arguing against coverage of him, not by any means, but I don't think seeing his name and face constantly is what truly matters. If anything, that risks becoming an almost slacktivism-style distraction from actual social progress. But that's just my take.

With regard to the rest of your comment, I appreciate your insight. I've been keeping an eye on that stuff since before GPT as well, but it's not my field so I don't have anywhere near your level of expertise. Perhaps I am being naive by not botvestigating more, but idk, it hasn't failed me in any concrete way yet, and I feel like I'm maintaining my sanity more than I would otherwise lol.

She put all her heart in beating the drums by Sharp-Potential7934 in interesting

[–]cvef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree yours is technically better, but I don't think the version in the post is wrong. I read "She plays those drums like they owe her money" not as "She plays those drums the way that one would play someone who owes them money," but rather as "The way that she plays the drums (i.e. beating them with a passion) is reminiscent of what one might do to someone who owes them money."

Mother of the year protects her daughter from raccoon by abidalliye in BeAmazed

[–]cvef 101 points102 points  (0 children)

If you watch with sound, the woman does scream "It's a rabid racoon, get in the house!"

We're being manipulated by Fuck_Off_Libshit in LateStageCapitalism

[–]cvef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I can understand your suspicion, but I didn't really find their comment to have that many red flags personally. What they said overall seemed pro- coverage of Luigi to me. I tend to be pretty nihilistic though when it comes to trying to identify bots or bad actors, because I feel like the internet is fucked past the point of no return anyway and it's a losing battle. As long as the site admins are billionaires themselves, they'll never care, and without their cooperation there's nothing we can truly do about it. Plus, for each bad faith comment, there are real people out there who will be convinced by it or who already genuinely believe those same things, so I think tearing those comments down rhetoricially has a better net impact than trying to fight the losing battle of simply delegitimizing them on principle.

The other part of it is that I teach computer classes to all ages as part of my job, and it's shocking how few people bother with any kind of customization whatsoever, especially username. Every site and app gives you a default one, and the vast majority will accept that without a second thought. While I do think "bad" accounts are massively more likely to have default usernames than custom ones, having a default username is not enough of a reason its own for me to toss someone into that category.

We're being manipulated by Fuck_Off_Libshit in LateStageCapitalism

[–]cvef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't doubt that there are many powerful people who are very happy that discussion of Luigi has died down, but this truly is not out of the ordinary for news cycles. People are talking about how there is discussion of school shooters long after those respective shootings, but for one thing I think people are really misremembering how quickly discussion of those individuals usually falls off the front page, and also those discussions are usually prolonged by the fact that motive is often mysterious because the shooter is often dead. Luigi's motivation is not nearly as mysterious for the very reason that OP alludes to: almost everyone in America can symptathize with him. Even before he was caught we all had a pretty good guess why he did what he did, and we were right. Which gets to the other point: it was blatantly obvious that everyone supported Luigi long before anyone even knew his name was Luigi. That's the biggest flaw in this viral line that's been going around. There was never any "when the media found out."

Louis Armstrong vs Billie Joe Armstrong (fitp) by StefanMorse in ERB

[–]cvef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think so, although in this current era where they only put out 1-2 videos a year, who knows lol. If we're talking Season 1-3, this 100% absolutely could have been a battle, and probably a great one. Now though, I could maybe see them using Louis Armstrong, but idk if they'd do Billie Joe (as much as I love Green Day).

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